Recently Mike B decided to create a presence on Facebook for his blog GarageSpin which focuses on trends and technologies for garage-based home recording studios with great side  trips looking at the challenges and opportunities that indie musicians face.  Social networking giant Facebook is an op...

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It is important to interact with current and potential fans in as many places as possible, but finding the time to keep them all updated can be difficult. And there's nothing worse then visiting a band's pages and seeing that it hasn't been updated in weeks.  Did they break up or are they just lose...

Building the right team to support and promote your music is essential. But along the way it's important to to remember that quite often you are your own best salesman. A good manager, agent or publicist has contacts and skills including salesmanship that will help move your career forward.  But no...

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor  T his i s a transcription of a presentation given by Gary Vaynerchuk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New Y o rk . I've watched the video m any times and wanted you share it with you, because I think he says some very important things. The re's always going to be a day w here yo...

FOR THE INDIE IN ALL OF US -   Recent surveys show that YouTube has become the #1 place online for music discovery; and assuming the major labels don't screw it up by muting all the good stuff, this trend will continue.. After all, why just listen to a new band when you can also watch it?  But how...

In addition to downloads its now easy for any band to sell ringtones created from their songs. Most services require no up front costs or long term commitments. You may be tempted to dismiss ringtones as pointless for your style of music. But for hard core fans, its another way to show their support...